Mobberley railway station

Mobberley railway station serves the village of Mobberley in Cheshire, England. It is to the north of the village and is managed by Northern Trains. The station is 18½ miles (30 km) south of Manchester Piccadilly on the Mid-Cheshire Line towards Chester.

Mobberley
Location
PlaceMobberley
Local authorityCheshire East
Grid referenceSJ778814
Operations
Station codeMOB
Managed byNorthern Trains
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryF2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 16,822
2015/16 20,686
2016/17 18,702
2017/18 16,534
2018/19 17,124
History
Key datesOpened 1862 (1862)
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Mobberley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History
Mobberley railway station in 1990

The station was opened on 12 May 1862 by the Cheshire Midland Railway which was absorbed by the Cheshire Lines Committee on 15 August 1867. The station passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the Privatisation of British Railways.

The station retains many of its original features and buildings, although these have been converted for residential use.

Facilities

The station is (like the majority of those on the line) unstaffed and has no ticket machine, so all tickets must be purchased in advance of travel or on the train. The main building is in private commercial use, but there are brick shelters on each platform, along with CIS displays, timetable poster boards and a bike rack on platform 2. A pay phone at the entrance can also be used to request train running information. Step-free access to both platforms is available via ramps from the level crossing at the Manchester end of the station.[1] This retains its manned signal box.[2]

Services

There is an hourly service westbound to Chester and eastbound to Manchester Piccadilly Monday to Saturday. On Sundays there is now a two-hourly service to Chester and to Southport via Manchester Piccadilly.[3] Mobberley was, until 12 December 2010, a request stop only.

The number of passengers using the station has nearly doubled in the past ten years, from 10,800 in 2005–06 to 20,700 in 2015-16.[4]

References
  1. Mobberley station facilities National Rail Enquiries
  2. "Mobberley Level Crossing Box" (2013) Dixon, David Geograph.org.uk; Retrieved 10 July 2017
  3. Table 88 National Rail timetable, May 2016
  4. http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/upload/xls/station-usage-2006-07.xls

Further reading
  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2013). Chester Northgate to Manchester. Middleton Press. figs. 60-63. ISBN 9781908174512. OCLC 892704846.
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Knutsford   Northern Trains
Mid-Cheshire Line		   Ashley

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